Qualla: Black Combe https://qualla.com/black-combe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/black-combe-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Black Combe https://qualla.com/black-combe Black Combe: Introduction https://qualla.com/black-combe/ Photo credit Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. William Wordsworth, who knew a thing or two about views in this corner of England, said that from the summit of Black Combe 'the amplest range of unobstructed prospect may be seen that British ground commands.' On a clear day he was right. The fell sits in the south-west corner of the Lake District, only four miles from the Irish Sea, and stands ten miles away from any higher ground. That isolation is the secret. Climb the 1,970 feet to the peat-covered summit plateau and half the view is glittering sea, with the Isle of Man clearly visible to the west and the hills of Wales and Scotland appearing as shadowy silhouettes on the horizon.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/black-combe-wp/gcts-black-combe-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Black Combe: The Hollow That Named the Hill https://qualla.com/black-combe/ Photo credit Perky Duck's Supplementals, CC BY-SA 2.0. Look at Black Combe from the south or east and the name explains itself. There is a large, dark-coloured glacial corrie carved into the eastern side of the fell — known as Blackcombe — and it is from this hollow that the whole hill takes its name. Such corries are often called co...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/black-combe-wp/gcts-black-combe-the-hollow-that-named-the-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Black Combe: A Station for the Survey https://qualla.com/black-combe/ Photo credit Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1809, the Ordnance Survey was still measuring the country into existence. Their initial trigonometric survey of Britain used Principal Triangles — vast geometric figures linking high points across the landscape, each measured with theodolites that took days to align. Black Com...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/black-combe-wp/gcts-black-combe-a-station-for-the-survey.mp3 0:06 3 full Black Combe: Hob Thross and the Cornlaiters https://qualla.com/black-combe/ Photo credit Perky Duck's Supplementals, CC BY-SA 2.0. An 1864 text on the folklore of Black Combe records customs that read like a window into another country. Bees were said to sing and the labouring ox to kneel in adoration at midnight on Christmas Eve. The direction a bull lay facing on All Hallows' Eve foretold the prevailing wi...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/black-combe-wp/gcts-black-combe-hob-thross-and-the-cornlaiters.mp3 0:06 4 full Black Combe: Old Rock, Quiet Walks https://qualla.com/black-combe/ Photo credit John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0. Geologically, Black Combe is older than almost anything around it. The rocks formed during the Ordovician period, roughly 460 million years ago — mudstones, siltstones, occasional sandstones and greywackes deposited in deep seas when coastal sediment slides reached the abyssal pl...

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